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Authentic Player Skulls

Authentic Player Skulls drops non-forgeable player heads upon death with seamless skin preservation, custom death broadcasts, and strict anti-tampering protection for SMP & Survival servers!

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Latest stable file authenticplayerskulls-1.16.5-0.2.jar

Game version 1.16.5

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Authentic Player Skulls authenticplayerskulls-1.16.5-0.2.jar targets 1.16.5 with Forge. The project page does not say whether this file belongs on the client, dedicated server, or both. No extra mods listed for this file.

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SkinChanger Optional for Authentic Player Skulls authenticplayerskulls-1.16.5-0.2.jar

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About this project

What does Authentic Player Skulls add?

💀 Authentic Player Skulls

Authentic Player Skulls is a lightweight, server-friendly Forge mod that adds realistic, non-forgeable player skull drops upon death. Designed for SMPs, Anarchy, and Survival servers, it preserves true player identities and skins while completely preventing anvil forgery!

✨ Features:

🏷️ Non-Forgeable Skulls: Players cannot rename normal heads in an Anvil to fake someone else's skull. Authenticity is 100% protected!

🎭 Full Skin Support (Online & Offline):

Online Mode: Automatically fetches skins for official Mojang / Microsoft accounts.
Offline Mode (SkinChanger Integration): Fully supports offline servers via the SkinChanger mod (listed in Relations). If a player has a custom offline skin, their skull will display it properly!
Fallback System: If no skin is found, it safely drops a named Skeleton Skull without crashing.

🎁 EXP Reward System: Right-click a skull to claim EXP based on the victim's experience level. (Rewards are claimable once per skull while keeping the head intact as a trophy!).

📜 Death Lore Tooltip: Hover over any dropped skull to view the exact date, time, and cause of death (or the killer's name).

🔊 Impact Sound & Effects: Features a powerful anvil impact sound (block.anvil.land) and smoke particles upon death.

⚙️ Fully Configurable: Easily customize PvP-only drop rules, drop chances, death broadcast messages, and blacklist specific players/admins.

🔗 Compatibility & Relations:

🎮 Minecraft Versions: 1.16.5 | 1.17.1 | 1.18.2 | 1.19.2 | 1.20.1

🛠️ Mod Loader: Forge

🧩 Dependencies:

SkinChanger (Optional Dependency) - Highly recommended for offline servers to render custom player skins on dropped skulls.

👑 Server Configuration (authenticplayerskulls-common.toml):

Admins can easily customize the behavior via the config file:

pvpOnly: Set to true if you only want skulls to drop during PvP combat.
dropChance: Adjust drop rate (from 0.0 to 1.0).
broadcastDeathHead: Toggle red/yellow kill messages in chat.
enableExpReward: Enable or disable the right-click EXP reward.
blacklistedPlayers: Add usernames of admins/players who shouldn't drop heads upon death.

Project description from CurseForge.

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